Mattis under pressure to reverse Obama administration’s approval of transgender troops

[TomSea]

Mattis under pressure to reverse Obama administration’s approval of transgender troops

 By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times - Sunday, June 18, 2017

Defense Secretary James Mattis is facing his first significant decision in the military’s sexual revolution legacy left by the last commander in chief, Barack Obama.

Mr. Obama’s defense secretary, Ashton Carter, issued a directive last year permitting transgender troops to remain in the military and undergo sex reassignment procedures instead of facing automatic discharge.

The next step in the transgender agenda is due July 1, according to Mr. Carter’s timeline. Mr. Mattis is to decide whether the armed forces will allow transgender people to join the military.

Deputy Defense Secretary Robert O. Work, an Obama holdover, required each service to submit plans for how they will open the ranks to transgender recruits. Those road maps are now in, leaving the next move up to Mr. Mattis, a retired Marine Corps four-star general who in the past has complained about the Pentagon’s intense focus on social issues.

Continued: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/18/james-mattis-faces-transgender-decision-for-milita/

[RoosGirl]

@Chosen Daughter Was it you who posted a different article about this the other night?  This maybe has a little bit more information, but is still a little unclear to me, given that the article you posted (if it was you) said that a hold had been placed on any implementation of the transgender policy.  This makes it sound as though there was a written in "rule" that for it to continue to full implementation that Sec Mattis has to sign off on it.

[RoosGirl]

PS  That picture of Bradley Manning? 

[truth_seeker]

Only one thing to call to attention: Alan Turing

The British dude, while working at Bletchley Park during WWII, laid the theoretical groundwork for computers, and cracked the German signals code.

His work saved countless human lives.  Male, female, gay, Protestant, Catholic, America, British, etc.

He also happened to be an homosexual man. After the war, the British government in part drove him to suicide.

 

[Joe Wooten]

Only one thing to call to attention: Alan Turing

The British dude, while working at Bletchley Park during WWII, laid the theoretical groundwork for computers, and cracked the German signals code.

His work saved countless human lives.  Male, female, gay, Protestant, Catholic, America, British, etc.

He also happened to be an homosexual man. After the war, the British government in part drove him to suicide.

So what? I do not care. The military has no business paying for and allowing trannies in uniform.

[RoosGirl]

There've been homosexuals in the military since there's been a military.  Only recently has the gov't decided that it needed to encourage them.    And now not just encourage them, but pay for gender reassignment surgeries for mentally ill people.  This is ridiculous and not a role that the government should have any part in.  The last thing the military should have to have a plan for is where the guy, dressed like a girl, taking pills to reverse his natural hormones is to take a shower or what to do with a "pregnant male".

[goodwithagun]

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[Maj. Bill Martin]

Only one thing to call to attention: Alan Turing

The British dude, while working at Bletchley Park during WWII, laid the theoretical groundwork for computers, and cracked the German signals code.

His work saved countless human lives.  Male, female, gay, Protestant, Catholic, America, British, etc.

He also happened to be an homosexual man. After the war, the British government in part drove him to suicide.

It is one thing to issue waivers to persons of exceptional ability/value.  It is something else entirely to have a mandate that requires the placement of persons of no special talent or value in positions where the costs outweigh the benefits.